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Luisa Valenzuela

  • I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

    • Luisa Valenzuela,
    • in Janet Sternburg, ed., The Writer on Her Work, vol. 2 ()
  • I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

    • Luisa Valenzuela,
    • in Janet Sternburg, ed., The Writer on Her Work, vol. 2 ()

Luisa Valenzuela, Argentinian novelist, journalist

(1938)